All items tagged with sensiBel (10)

In-Ear Technology Meets Music Fidelity in audioXpress April 2024!

March 12, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

In-Ear Technology Meets Music Fidelity in audioXpress April 2024!

Read the latest Earbuds and Hearables market update. sensiBel experts explain everything about the advantages of Microphone Array Beamforming with Optical MEMS Microphones. GRAS' researchers share their findings about Ear Canal Geometry for In-Ear Headphone Testing. Learn how Hearing and Audio affects our perception of music fidelity. Jan Didden interviews Menno van der Veen. Andrew Russell shares his High-Performance 60-Watt Class A Amplifier project, and Tom Perazella explains how to build a Comprehensive AC Power Controller.

Sennheiser Invests in Norwegian Optical MEMS Microphone Pioneer sensiBel

February 21, 2024 by Joao Martins

Sennheiser Invests in Norwegian Optical MEMS Microphone Pioneer sensiBel

sensiBel announced a new successful 7 million Euros funding round with Sennheiser leading the investment together with existing main shareholders TRUMPF Venture, Skagerak Capital, Investinor, SINTEF Venture, MP Pensjon and Halden Kommunale Pensjonskasse. The funds will be used to expand production and invest in scalability of sensiBel’s patented optical MEMS microphones that offer 80dBA SNR and 132dB of dynamic range, a new level of performance for packaged miniature microphones.

R&D Stories: How Optical Technology Enables a Generational Shift in MEMS Microphone Performance

December 13, 2023 by Jakob Vennerød and Kieran Harney

R&D Stories: How Optical Technology Enables a Generational Shift in MEMS Microphone Performance

The article summarizes the evolution of MEMS microphone technology and describes the benefits of optical microphones over conventional solutions. This is a crucial reading to understand how the first generation of optical MEMS microphones have smashed the limits of SNR and dynamic range of miniature microphones, with 80dBA SNR (14dBA noise floor), 132dB dynamic range, 24-bit digital output and all with ultra-low power consumption.

audioXpress November 2023 Takes You to the Edge of Audio Development

October 11, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress November 2023 Takes You to the Edge of Audio Development

audioXpress November 2023 offers an exclusive in-depth report on optical MEMS microphone technology from sensiBel, and understand how microphones can impact active noise cancellation performance. Learn how a new ADC Hybrid Gain Control IC enables smooth microphone preamp gain changes, and how to use DSP for hearing enhancement applications. Explore a Motion Feedback (MFB) approach enabling effective active desktop subwoofers, and recap on a century of Home Loudspeaker Development.

October 10, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

MEMS Industry Expert Anthony Minervini Joins sensiBel

As it gets closer to commercialization, the optical MEMS microphone company from Norway, continues to expand its business and leadership team. sensiBel confirmed that it hired industry-heavyweight Anthony Minervini to the sensiBel development team. Anthony has been in the MEMS industry for 23 years and for the last 8 years has served as the microphone packaging technology architect for the acoustics group at Apple, following previous experiences with Knowles and Invensense (TDK), and Analog Devices.

audioXpress February 2023 Now Available! What Do You Want to Hear?

January 12, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress February 2023 Now Available! What Do You Want to Hear?

audioXpress February 2023 focuses on the small devices in the increasingly larger market of MEMS Microphones and Voice Pickup Sensors. The Market Update on this topic is complemented by Erica Yorga's article on the principles of Nureva's Unified Coverage Map. Ethan Winer offers the first of a primer on modern PC board design, there's a review of the Arylic Audio Up2Stream Amp V4 board, an inside story on how Crestron adopted AES67, and a High-Performance Tube Hybrid Preamp DIY project.

Audio and Loudspeaker Technologies International (ALTI) Association Promotes Hospitality Suite at CES 2023

September 5, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Audio and Loudspeaker Technologies International (ALTI) Association Promotes Hospitality Suite at CES 2023

Members of the Audio and Loudspeaker Technologies International (ALTI) Association will be able to benefit from a new hospitality suite during CES 2023, January 4-8, in Las Vegas, NV. Companies who are not yet an ALTI member may apply now and will be able to setup a table to promote their business and services, organize meetings, relax and reorganize between meetings, and network with other key audio companies during the show.

Industry Veteran Kieran Harney Joins sensiBel

July 13, 2022 by Joao Martins

Industry Veteran Kieran Harney Joins sensiBel

sensiBel, the Norwegian company developing optical MEMS microphones, continues to expand its team of electronics, optics and acoustics technology experts, as well as growing its business and leadership team. Following the announcement earlier in 2022 that the company is ramping up its production, sensiBel confirmed that Kieran Harney has now joined the sensiBel team to lead the company's business development in the Americas.

Optical MEMS Microphone Technology from sensiBel Receives Funding Needed To Enter Production

April 19, 2022 by Joao Martins

Optical MEMS Microphone Technology from sensiBel Receives Funding Needed To Enter Production

sensiBel is a Norwegian company developing a new generation of MEMS microphones using patented optical technology that they believe will be able to reach 80dB SNR and rival conventional studio microphone capsules, with all the benefits of a fully encapsulated solution. The company now announced a successful funding round of 15 million Euros, led by Germany’s TRUMPF Venture and including The European Council’s EIC Fund, Skagerak Capital, Investinor, and SINTEF Venture IV. sensiBel will use the funding to ramp up production.

A Look at Soundbar Audio Signal Processing

December 12, 2018 by Mike Klasco

A Look at Soundbar Audio Signal Processing

In this article, we will take a look at what is trending in audio signal processing for the poster child of integrated electronics speakers… the soundbar. As an audio consumer product category, soundbars remain a top seller, having replaced receivers and their associated passive speaker systems, which have sadly been reduced to legacy product categories. More than 10 million soundbars are sold annually but most deliver barely more performance than a table radio. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, October 2018.